Today I guess I have to be thankful I am alive and what everyone believed was happening wasn't. I thought I was going to end up the same fate as my dad and I was freaked out the entire time. Last night at 2a.m. I was shutting down my computer and I told Matt that something isn't right, my vision was off I was seeing objects in 3D or double vision. That intensified and then I remembered the feeling of a water balloon popping in my head. Immediately a rush of "electricity" it felt like went from my head down my body causing every limb and my face to feel like dead weight. I couldn't talk right, but was still consciously aware of everything. At least my thought process was still ok. I was taken by ambulance to the hospital where eventually I returned to normal, within about 3 hours. Thankfully it was not a stroke, but rather, extremely low blood sugar. I'm very well experienced in low blood sugar seizures and mental status because of my sister and this was not the norm for what I know. Usually you can feel it coming on, and this was pretty instant. It probably had a lot to do with me not feeling well and not eating too much this past week, and then overloading on carbs for dinner (italian), and caused me to "crash". It bothers me a lot though, because being out of control and in temporary paralysis is scary, and now I have a pretty good idea of what a stroke actually feels like because I had every matching symptom. 10 hours later and I still have lots of residual effects, but am ok. I'll carry around my glucose meter even though I'm not diabetic and will carry around glucose tabs from now on. I've so had enough but I'm not ready to quit my battle yet.
Originally posted on Facebook on June 30, 2012.
